Tornado warning in NYC.

I live in New York City's suburbs and we just had a tornado warning. To quote the news, " Stay in your houses, close your windows and stay in any basements or lower areas" WTF is going on? Oh yea, just saw a confirmed tornado on the news. I'll find a link if I can.

UPDATE: All airports closed.

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www.fly.faa.gov...

"due to weather" is why JFK is closed.

i95.photobucket.com...

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For those in the area here's the NASA/Marshall weather sat loop link.

Best of luck,

Vic

Newsday and News12 greatly exaggerated this. Where I live we had heavy rain around 9am EST for maybe a half hour and it stopped. There were no cars floating away, no gigantic waves rolling down Deer Park Avenue or Southern State, etc. The tornado warning was canceled within an hour of being issued. The power outages are widespread but very small in number like 10 outages in this community, 5 here, 9 here, etc and as usual are mostly confined to Brookhaven Town and the Northshore, down here in Southwest Suffolk all is business as normal and has been so all day.

NO airports are closed, JFK and LaGuardia have delays of up to 4 hours. The LIRR is messed up as usual, if they cant even fix the famous gap then obviously they cant handle a rainstorm.



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It looks like all the weather is to the south of NYC now. It was raining very hard this morning though.

I'm watching the news now. Tornado happened, I didn't hear where though. Oh well, I was kinda hopping for one to brag about surviving.

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